15 June 2012(2) - QA 4

Is there more moral ambivalence today? Has the definition of right and wrong become fuzzier? Is that part of the problem?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Right and wrong is always relative. That which gives you long term benefit, maybe with a short term loss is good. And that which gives you short term benefit but long term loss is not good. That could be a criteria.
If you want a simplified criteria between right and wrong – That which brings you pain in the short term and happiness in the long term is good; and that which brings you happiness in the short term but pain in the long term is not good.
You may become a billionaire overnight, but if for rest of the life you have to count the bars in a jail then that is not the right thing.